Today, the court in The Hague, the Netherlands has decided that the Dutch ISP’s UPC, KPN, T-Mobile and Tele2 have to block another IP address that recently appeared to host the Piratebay. In a previous lawsuit, won by the Dutch anti-piracy organisation BREIN, the court already ruled that ISP had to block regular Piratebay IP addresses but the ruling did not include permission for BREIN to add new IP addresses to the list of blocked IP’s used by the Piratebay without intervention of a judge.

To pass the inital ruling, the Piratebay used an additional IP address, which the anti-piracy organisation obviously would liked to see blocked as well and therefor went to court again. In a summary proceeding BREIN asked for blocking of the additional IP address and it won. According to BREIN was the specific IP address (194.71.107.80) was unranked on Alexa.com on the 22th of May, but in two days the ranking climbed from rank 6.279.027 to 2.095.964 which indicated high usage of the IP address.

The court has given the Dutch ISP’s three days to block the IP address. If they do not comply the penalty is 10k EURO a day with a maximum of 250k EURO.